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Jane Todd is chief executive of Nottingham County Council, a post she has held since 2008. She is responsible for over 13,000 staff and a budget of millions. Nottingham was recently mentioned in Alastair Campbell’s blog for its unusual number of women in top positions, including the Sheriff of Nottingham! Of course I had to talk to her and find out the secret of her success! Jane: Jane, thanks so much for taking the time to talk with us; I

I was working in a London recently with a group of very talented female managers. They were an amazing group of women, professional and inspirational. Yet when it came to the exercise in Women Ahead where they are asked to look at their strengths and attributes, the room fell unusually silent and I could hear mutterings of: “I could list all my faults but this is too flippin’ hard!” Needless to say with encouragement we uncovered multiple talents once we